AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[saraid.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry. i just watched this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8pqoh11oN4 a half-dozen times. i haven't been able to read civil war. i don't think i ever will. i just can't -- argh -- how could tony -- why, oh why??????

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: I'm taking your name down.

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

It may be a little less painful than it seems at first glance. Like I said, a fair amount of the comics-tech is purely imaginary, or at least only speculative.

For example, in real life, nanotech means nothing more than "really small technology." Right now, they're still excited about microscopic caplets that can carry already-existing drugs into the system (you tag 'em with those tracer chemicals they use for X-rays and fill them with chemotherapy drugs, and they can home in on tumors for spot-treatment). The most elaborate robotics application so far is that they figured out how to bond RFID tags to bacteria, and they're not quite sure what to do with that yet.

Those are pretty cool, admittedly, but in the comics you have tiny AI-controlled robots and crud, which are way beyond anything we can even think of doing right now. To flesh that out, it's more useful to look into current sci-fi trends. Sci-fi authors are making it up just as much as you would be, but they do tend to be good at coming up with jargon and ideas you can run with.

I'm surprised Tony hasn't caught on to the idea of itty-bitty remote control nanites that he can command with his brain, though.

Anyway, you can friend me, email me, PM me--whatever works for you.

Hmmm

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

the Ultimates Tony Stark has stuff to do with nanites, he tried to use it on Banner (it actually worked) until something happened and it didn't anymore.

Sci-fi authors are making it up just as much as you would be, but they do tend to be good at coming up with jargon and ideas you can run with.

That? Is a good idea. I just need to muck on through nineties canon, and then reaquaint myself with the naughties. Oy.

Re: Hmmm

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

*meddles* *inserts self*

I'm pretty up on Tony's 90s canon, and if there's something I blank on, I have a friend who is a Stark Encylopedia.

I can't offer much with the tech end, but if you want 90s trivia, I'd be delighted to try and help out.

Oh really?

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Good good. I might need you. Right now though, I have a slog of reading ahead of me. I need to read 90's canon of The Mighty Avengers, Iron Man and Captain America in order to plot out like, key points of the time line.

After seeing SI #8, I think I owe myself catharsis. If the fic gets too intimate or too hard to read, I might not post it... I don't know.